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The Amherst news-times. (Amherst, Ohio), 1945-01-11

The Amherst news-times. (Amherst, Ohio), 1945-01-11 page 1

Am ierst News-Times HE VOL XXVII, NUMBER 2 AMHERST, OHIO, THURSDAY JANUARY 11, 1945" THE SANDSTONE CENTER OF THE WORLD Army Nurses Wade Through Rain And Mud To Serve On Front Lines From somewhere In Northern France, Lieut. Germaine Lahiff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Lahiff, 142 Cleveland Ave., writes and gives a picture of army life. Germaine savs. "It's been a long time since I've seen an Amherst paper but one of these days all my mail will catch up with me and then I will know all the home town news. "We've traveled considerably since, leaving the States mostly by army truck and what a ride one gets in a G. I. truck! You always wear or carry your steel helmet and at lAflet nno Klan- ket, maybe two, K ,J' for it cets aw- ! cold, w e also wear heavy four- J buckle arctics and sure don't think about glamor. All you think about is keeping warm and won dering if you can get one more layer on under your field coat and still get it on. "We had rough weather on our trip over but I might say here 1 i 1, I I, A L. Becker Wounded By Hand Grenade In French Battle Pfc. Norwood Becker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Becker, West Street, who is a member of the infantry with the Seventh Army in France, received slight injuries to his face when a hand grenade exploded. In a letter to his parents this week Becker says his injuries are slight and that there is no need for worry. Norwood has had the experience of spending Thanksgiv ing day in a fox hole and Christmas day in the hospital, but says Christmas Eve at the hospital was one he will long remember. The nurses and all patients that were able sang carols and it was a very impressive sight. He also thinks the misfortunes 7p7'J f h m d fcspit d no iy Business Men's Party Is Set For Next Wednesday All business and professional men and women in the com munity are invited to attend the annual Amherst Business Men and Women's Association party next Wednesday evening, Jan. 17, at the Eagles's Home at 6:30 p. m. The regular meeting of the as sociation will not be held this month. Any business needing attention will be taken care of at the dinner party. Tickets are available at Mary Edwards' Beauty Shoppe, Good- speed's, Lersch's Grocery, The News-Times, and Roy Harr at the L. & L. Chevrolet. Reservations must be in by Monday, Jan. 15. Couple Killed In Freak Accident Firemen's " Dance Set For Jan. 19 Plans for the annual Firemen's Dance were formulated when the men met at the fire station on Tuesday evening of this week. Set for Friday evening, Jan. 19, the affair as an annual event staged by members of the department. Proceeds from the dance go into the departemnt treasury to ibe used as needed for the betterment of the department. The dance will be held at the Eagles Home, starting at 9 p. m., with both modern and square dancing scheduled. Jackson's Or chestra, of Elyria, will furnish the music. Booster Club To Elect Officers In Meeting At School Election, of officers will be held by the Athletic Booster Club to that I enjoyed every minute of it me rain peitea down out we had "c " """ . A Soutn Amherst woman was hii.ni v-iir. nnoo cn tut ji'!of war have a brieht side as he': ji.. j ... ., ... .... keep us off the deck and toward was taken to the hospital where ,her husband died Sunday at 3:15 niSht (Thursday) at the Assem- j-iieuis. narps.sa nieuzKP ana ... . . . .... r i tu u:u i i . ,p m ln 0l josepn s Hospital ai- Germaine Lahiff are stationed - ter the coupe attempted to awl and had the great pleasure of i under a freight train at the Broad- the end we could see the shores of several countries; we were close enough to see the buildings. "As soon as we landed we were 1 'divided up and sent on detached service to other hospitals. I was sent to a General Hospital. We got 'a good idea of what war is like. These boys are wonderful each one over here is a hero. They have so much courage and are so brave. Even listening to them I wonder how they can do and carry on so cheejulljf after what being at the front must mean. I could never do It. I love listening to them fine de tective stories will be tame for these boys after their own ex periences. "When one fellow was well enough to go back to duty, I was saying good bye to him and tell ing him to be careful or he would be getting a cluster for his purple heart. He' said, 'Mam, when you "dig in" with your hands and teeth, that's as careful as any man can be.' "I hope that when these boys get home for good that we don't forget that they had to dig in for their lives, and that we treat them accordingly. "Next, we went by hospital train traveled in real style three miles a day even had breakfast In bed. Of course it was a bit hard eating in bed for we were on stretchers three lay ers deep. One couldn't raise his head without getting bumped. The other coaches were European style aisle along the side and compartments. "Next, I went on D. S. with an evacuation unit everything in tents and it is not at all bad in fact very nice. We carried our own water, heated It on stoves in tin cans, then washed I fronvour helmets. "In the hospital tent there are two rows of cots, an aisle down the center and four stoves. "An eva'c. unit operates and fixes the men as comfortably as they can taken by ambulance or train back farther, to a general hospital. We sometimes have patients only four or five days and if they can not be moved we keep them longer, but since they are brought In right from the front, having been given first aid by a Medical Aid Corps on the field we try to keep cleared out as much as we can so always to be able to take new ones. THere is one comfort in doing this work you know that) as far as the soldiers go the Americans have the best in the world and the surgery our doctors are doln gis nothing short of miraculous. If they can be helped In any way they are. Then the penicillin that we use saves many lives. "Our unit Is together now ln a building that the Germans had occupied for four years before we got here. We have things fixed seeing them. iway Nickel Plate intersection. unnstmas aay Drougnt mm 31 ; , n.i i lYiit, 14.1 o. viauva iiLACl b letters from home which was thejHartle, 37, was ground beneath mak man lie lidu iciciveu ill several weeks. The Red Cross did all that was possible to make the day a little brighter by distributing chocolate bars, ice cream. fruit cake and small gifts to the patients. As there was not- an abundance of ice cream, only those most seriously ill received the treat but Norwood received a pipe which was something he had wanted badly. James Donnelly Expecting Leave After Duty At Sea Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Donnelly, North Main Street, received a telegram last week stating that their son, James Donnelly, Mo.-M.M.3c, has arrived in the States and expects to have a leave coming soon. Donnelly has the train wheels after the train started up and dragged her almost 200 feet before the train came to a halt. Meredith Hartle. 36. R. D. 1. South Amherst had his leg sev-l ! ered at the knee and his rieht leg was badly mangled at the hip.' .Hartle was found 200 feet further down the tracks near the Reid Avenue crossing. He was taken to the hospital in an ambulance and remained conscious all the time. Lorain police said the train did not extend clear across the street, but merely blocked the west side of Broadway. By walking around the end of the train, the man and his wife would have been safe. Mrs. Hartle was a member of a Comanche Indian tribe from Colgate, Oklahoma. Surviving are her mother, Mrs. Oscar An bly Room in the high school, with the meeting starting promptly at 7:30. Postponed from December, the meeting tonight had orginally been slated to include election of officers and adoption of a constitution. However, changes in the schedules of basketball games moved the Lorain St. Mary's game up to conflict with the Booster Club meeting. William Guild, president of the club, stated that the meeting will start promptly, at 7:30 so that those attending can then watch the game. He pointed out that members of the club can boost both the club and the team by attending the meeting and then go ing in a body to the game Basketball Sched Changed For Two Games This Week Changes in the Amherst bas ketball schedule this week will result in games being played to night (Thursday) and tomorrow night, instead of tomorrow and Saturday evenings. Scheduled now to meet the local Comets in cage battles are the following: Thursday, Jan. 11, Lorain St. Mary's, on the local floor; Friday, Jan. 12, Vermilion', there; Tuesday, Jan. 16, South Amherst, there; and Friday, Jan. 19, New London, there. Five games remain for the local squad after the New London game, starting with the Wellington game here on January 26. In the Oberlin game here last Saturday evening, the Comets were outplayed from the start of the game, winding up on the short end of the score, 37-30. Oberlin won the first game between the two teams, earlier in the season, 39-27. In the preliminary, the Am herst Reserves defeated the Ober lin Reserves. Three Estimates Received On Work Called 'Too High' m , . , , All bids for construction of the 1 WO liUSeS Added P'OP0861 additions to the Amherst Hosnin wptp roWto1 nn WJ To Schedule For Saturday P.M. Two additional buses have been added on the Employees' Transit Lines, from Amherst to Lorain on Hospial were rejected on Wed nesday afternoon of this week In a joint meeting of the Rotary Club's Hospital Fund Raising Committee and the Hospital Board. Characterized as much too high and entirely out of line with ar chitects' and other preliminary Asks That Fire Plugs Be Kept Tree Of Snow Fire Chief Al Stiwald this week requested that citizens of the town ,assistin keeping snow cleared away from fire plugs. Pointing out that in most cases a few minutes saved when a department answers a fire alarm may mean the difference between a small loss and a major confla gration, Stiwald said that all Funeral Sprvirp plugs should be readily accessibIe 1 UtlVIUl OLrVlLeS ,t0 firemen. The village is doing wj u j , 'its best to keep the snow shovel- 11VIU LiUSl OlUlUUy 'ed away so that the plugs can I r Saturday afternoons to accom-1 estimates, all three of thp hM modate riders and to eliminate ' received were rpiwtoH over-crowding on the 2:00 o'clock ther taking' of bids tabled for an ous, u was announcea tnis week indefinite period. by John W. Schmauch, president' Th. ; j uSJ. of the company. ' , notrot. . . .. Pointing out that workers go- .... ing to the National Tube Plant i.wo,, fl - must use the 2:00 p. m. bus from project but most had t , Amherst, Schmauch requested that minute declined to t shoppers and others going intojmates. Reasong jven were ft Lora.n use either the bus at 1:15 Scarcity of materjals and ,ab p m. or the one at 1:45 p m. In and recent WMC regulations. the past, the 2:00 p m. bus has Those bidding on job werfi been so crowded that workers jThe John Gm and S(ms Cq going to the steel mills have had j Cleveland, T. J. Hume Co, Lor-chfficulty in obtaining seats. For ai and steinle-Wolfe, Inc., Fre-that reason, the other two buses mont were added expressly to carry .. . . . shopper and others who did not MenjDers u.e Board and the have to an tn wnrW nn Ih. 9-M Commltt. rejecting the bids, took the stand that it would be have to go to work on the 2:00 o'clock bus. The new schedule is in effect only on Saturdays, the one bus being able to seat all passengers on other days of the week. First Baby Born In Hospital Here Donates To Fund For FyGU BeT&er the continued snowfalls and the O I drifting cover some plugs up Viinnrnl corif i foe mora aerson, oerKeiey,ai., ana sister, I Sunday for Fred Berger. 62. in Mrs. Lillian Hudson, Fairfield, 0.;st; peter's Church with Rev. J again. It may be to the citizen's held advantage to donate a little time She was buried Monday at Elm wood cemetery. Mr. Hartle is survived by five brothers and six sisters, Frank of Brownhelm; Harry, address un known; Earl and Leonard, Am H. Bollens officiating. Mr. Berger died Friday at his home, 411 Franklin Ave, after being ill for some time. He had been custodian at the public school for the past 20 years and had worked the last day of school, herst: Louis. U. S. Armv now In "i iiiuu wor been in the navyDesnon General Hospital at But- tw 21 since June 1942 and during that Mr Wanda Millbaury, Qorn Switzerland Mf uCC.. i.o,.,e i0r oniy j; -- ; - ger came to America 50 Ber- days. For the past two years he tlna Hartle- Pittsburgh, Pa.; Mrs.( . . . .,', an ,if u- ci-t j Irene Wall. svkpsviiIp Pa an a , Mrs. Ruth Gray, Elyria. ; been a resident of Amherst. -He , . . was a memuer oi ai. reiers v- '. luiiui ai aciviLCS were has been out of the States and for the last year as been serving on a submarine somewhere in the Pacific. Parker Miller, Sic, is now at tending radio school in the South Pacific. Parker has met John Brown and writes that they spend quite a bit of time together when off duty. held Tuesday at the Zilch Funer al Home with Rev. C. C. Vander- sall, pastor of the First Evangeli cal Church, officiating. Burial was in Brownhelm cemoterv. Pvt. James Redman, who un derwent an aDDendoctnmv last then the patients are ' 0etber, is reported much improv- eu ana aDie to ao lignt duty. Jim is in the Pacific area. Dog Omiers Are Reminded About Jan. 20 Deadline C. J. Ehrman, ircRistrar, this local deputy ! I angelical-Reformed Church and was affiliated with Swiss Lodge of South Amherst, Amherst Eagles, and Maccabees. Survivors are his wife, Mary; jtwo sons, Frederick, of Amherst, j Lieut. Edwin, with the army in ! France; three daughters, Mrs. ! Richard Thutt, Lima; Miss Hulda Berger, and Mrs. George Holl- : stein, Amherst; three grandchildren; lour brothers, Ernest, Lorain; Cari, Oberlin; John, Hen- C.Jnlml. AMuni. 11UUU, nillllUlM, 11VC in clearing out the plugs in this emergency, affording just that much more differential in getting water onto a fire, he stated. As a matter of ocntrast, Stiwald recalled that in January of 1944, lack of snow or rain for a long period of time had left fields so dry that three grass fires were put out by the department during the month. He further pointed out that even if no grass fires could start now, there is still the ever-present danger of fires starting from over-heated furnaces or stoves, and he urged the utmost precaution in firing to prevent a blaze from starting. week warned rini? up pretty nice now, with lights j owners that January 20 is the and windows, but you should see : deadline for securing licenses for us nurses dressed in combat i their Dots without a .nnn-Hnii!,,. pants, leggings, muddy shoes and field jackets. We must walk from our quarters to mess and the hos pital and its plenty muddy for it ! rains daily, but the boys don't penalty. County Auditor Frank Ayres has announced that there will not be an extension of time and that after that date there will be spfm in mlnrl Thov wont in a nnanIlnH t: " " . i, j nun. V w u uiic-uUUUl 1111C. touch us, because we are Ameri- I Ehrman said the licenses had can women, and they want to moved fairlv wnll this venr w hear us talk their language. There is always the American sense of humor, always joking and kidding so altogether things are pretty good. "I'm tried, after twelve hours of duty and its time for bed. so a Merry Christmas to you ln Am herst and say an extra prayer that all these boys will be home for next Christmas." ' j there are still a good many to be sold, compared to sales in former years. The Amherst Parent-Teachers' Association meeting has been postponed until Feb. 12, at 7:30 in the school gym. sisters, Mi's. George Vollmer, Amherst; -Airs. Alma Krugman, Mrs. Augm: Krugman, Mrs. Henry Krieg ai:d Miss Bertha Berger, all of Elyria. Burial was under the direction of Conrad Zilch, the body being taken to Evergreen Cemetery, So. Amherst. Aid To Elect Choir rehearsal for the Congre gational Church will be held at 7:30 this evening (Thursday). . Election of officers will be held when the Ladies' Aid Society of the First Evangelical Church meets in the home of Mrs. George Schroeder, Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Schroeder will be assisted in entertaining by her mother, Mrs. Kroll. Orchestra and choir practice will . be held at the Schroeder home at 7:15 Thursday evening. District Director To Visit Eagles District Director Bob Encle- hart, accompanied bv his staff. will hold a district meeting in connection with the meeting of the local Eagles next Monday night. Visitors from Elyria, Lorain, Nor-walk and Wellington arc expected to attend. A large class of candidates will be initiated in the local order at the meeting January 22nd. Some sidelights on the "history of the Amherst Hosnjtal wprp brought to light this week with the donation of $10 to the Hospital Addition Building Fund by a service man. Sgt. James Ehrman, home on leave from India, in making the donation disclosed that he had a very personal interest in the hospital inasmuch as he was the first baby born there. He was born on February 19, 1917, six days after the formal dedication of the hospital, his mother being the1 second patient there. - The first service man to donate toward the new third baby born in the hospital was S-Sgt. Geoffrey Monger, who also gave $10. He is stationed in India where he is with the medical corps of the army and now in the general hospital at Calcutta. The second baby born in the hospital was Ben Schaeffer, second son of Dr. and Mrs. W. G. Schaeffer, on May 29. 1917. Schaeffer is married and has three daughters and lives in Lorain. All three men graduated from! better to wait for a few months until building conditions were better before asking for further bidding. Had the bids been received two weeks earlier, it was stated, there would have been other estimates presented, at a nuiCh lower total. .!... Almost $7,000 is still needed to make the total of $65,000 felt necessary to construct and equip the addition, A. Nabakowskl. chairman of the fund raislna- committee, has reported. Received to date is the sum of $58,200, of which only $3,000 is . in pledges, the balance being on deposit in the bank. There are still a few people to be contacted for donations, It has been reported. A meeting of the committee is planned for the near future to make plans for contacting those not already seen, ' and for raising the balance of the goal. Herb Morris In i man to donate f rk r ni fund and the LW Ul blllD in the hospital! I heported ISunk j Herbert Morris, MM2c, son of I Mr. and Mrs. William Morris,' i Crosse Street, Is a member of the crew of the Destroyer Reid, announced as sunk In the Philippine area.' The family has received no word concerning the safety of their son. Amherst Hieh Srhoni ,ith ihJ Morm ftas beei in the service class of '35 and all three attended I .! '42 and has seen duty P fte . . . I Pari f in cinnn in. ij H MlfTtrm rnUarrn ii-ht. X? I --""v. auiic iiliJ, -..-... w.4,k rvuiJic .mill iiiHii i graduated Monger and Ehrman are mem bers of the National Honor Soci cty. Sgt. Ehrman left Monday report for duty at Miami, Fla. to Firemen's Board Elects Officers Grange To Install Officers Jan. 18th Installation of officers will be held at Hickory Tree Grange at the Grange hall Jan. 18. Installation was postponed to this date owing to the Impassable condition of the roads. George Park's degree team from Oberlin will Install the subordinate officers and Mrs. Mason's team will Install the juvenile officers. Refreshments will be served by the ladies. William Edwards was elected chairman and Mathcw Lawless secretary and treasurer when the Firemen's Tension Board held their organization meeting at the'? ,he 1 firn ctntUn In . v.n and hostess ut buv iuwh nun jasi week. The board is comprised of six men, two from the fire department, two from the council and two citizens of the village. Representing the firemen are Edwards and Harold Brown; councllmen are John Sablers and Dr. A. F. McQueen: and citizens are Matthew Lawless and Clar ence Kern. Sgt. Jim Ehrman Addresses League i When the Senior League of St. Peter's Evangelical and Reformed Church held its meeting last week in the church parlors, Sgt. James Ehrman gave a talk on the people and customs of India. Many articles were exhibited which he had brought home from India. Mr. and Mrs. John Ehlert. spon sors of the group, were the host and they served I lunch to Rev. J. H. Bollens, Sgt. Ehrman, Richard Ehrman, Jack Bollens, and the Misses Dwella Bollens, Norma and Janice Holl-ingsworth.Plans were made to meet on February 8. I ( The postponed meeting nt tin Truthseekerg Class scheduled far last Tuesday evening has been cancelled for the month. 4

Am ierst News-Times HE VOL XXVII, NUMBER 2 AMHERST, OHIO, THURSDAY JANUARY 11, 1945" THE SANDSTONE CENTER OF THE WORLD Army Nurses Wade Through Rain And Mud To Serve On Front Lines From somewhere In Northern France, Lieut. Germaine Lahiff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Lahiff, 142 Cleveland Ave., writes and gives a picture of army life. Germaine savs. "It's been a long time since I've seen an Amherst paper but one of these days all my mail will catch up with me and then I will know all the home town news. "We've traveled considerably since, leaving the States mostly by army truck and what a ride one gets in a G. I. truck! You always wear or carry your steel helmet and at lAflet nno Klan- ket, maybe two, K ,J' for it cets aw- ! cold, w e also wear heavy four- J buckle arctics and sure don't think about glamor. All you think about is keeping warm and won dering if you can get one more layer on under your field coat and still get it on. "We had rough weather on our trip over but I might say here 1 i 1, I I, A L. Becker Wounded By Hand Grenade In French Battle Pfc. Norwood Becker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Becker, West Street, who is a member of the infantry with the Seventh Army in France, received slight injuries to his face when a hand grenade exploded. In a letter to his parents this week Becker says his injuries are slight and that there is no need for worry. Norwood has had the experience of spending Thanksgiv ing day in a fox hole and Christmas day in the hospital, but says Christmas Eve at the hospital was one he will long remember. The nurses and all patients that were able sang carols and it was a very impressive sight. He also thinks the misfortunes 7p7'J f h m d fcspit d no iy Business Men's Party Is Set For Next Wednesday All business and professional men and women in the com munity are invited to attend the annual Amherst Business Men and Women's Association party next Wednesday evening, Jan. 17, at the Eagles's Home at 6:30 p. m. The regular meeting of the as sociation will not be held this month. Any business needing attention will be taken care of at the dinner party. Tickets are available at Mary Edwards' Beauty Shoppe, Good- speed's, Lersch's Grocery, The News-Times, and Roy Harr at the L. & L. Chevrolet. Reservations must be in by Monday, Jan. 15. Couple Killed In Freak Accident Firemen's " Dance Set For Jan. 19 Plans for the annual Firemen's Dance were formulated when the men met at the fire station on Tuesday evening of this week. Set for Friday evening, Jan. 19, the affair as an annual event staged by members of the department. Proceeds from the dance go into the departemnt treasury to ibe used as needed for the betterment of the department. The dance will be held at the Eagles Home, starting at 9 p. m., with both modern and square dancing scheduled. Jackson's Or chestra, of Elyria, will furnish the music. Booster Club To Elect Officers In Meeting At School Election, of officers will be held by the Athletic Booster Club to that I enjoyed every minute of it me rain peitea down out we had "c " """ . A Soutn Amherst woman was hii.ni v-iir. nnoo cn tut ji'!of war have a brieht side as he': ji.. j ... ., ... .... keep us off the deck and toward was taken to the hospital where ,her husband died Sunday at 3:15 niSht (Thursday) at the Assem- j-iieuis. narps.sa nieuzKP ana ... . . . .... r i tu u:u i i . ,p m ln 0l josepn s Hospital ai- Germaine Lahiff are stationed - ter the coupe attempted to awl and had the great pleasure of i under a freight train at the Broad- the end we could see the shores of several countries; we were close enough to see the buildings. "As soon as we landed we were 1 'divided up and sent on detached service to other hospitals. I was sent to a General Hospital. We got 'a good idea of what war is like. These boys are wonderful each one over here is a hero. They have so much courage and are so brave. Even listening to them I wonder how they can do and carry on so cheejulljf after what being at the front must mean. I could never do It. I love listening to them fine de tective stories will be tame for these boys after their own ex periences. "When one fellow was well enough to go back to duty, I was saying good bye to him and tell ing him to be careful or he would be getting a cluster for his purple heart. He' said, 'Mam, when you "dig in" with your hands and teeth, that's as careful as any man can be.' "I hope that when these boys get home for good that we don't forget that they had to dig in for their lives, and that we treat them accordingly. "Next, we went by hospital train traveled in real style three miles a day even had breakfast In bed. Of course it was a bit hard eating in bed for we were on stretchers three lay ers deep. One couldn't raise his head without getting bumped. The other coaches were European style aisle along the side and compartments. "Next, I went on D. S. with an evacuation unit everything in tents and it is not at all bad in fact very nice. We carried our own water, heated It on stoves in tin cans, then washed I fronvour helmets. "In the hospital tent there are two rows of cots, an aisle down the center and four stoves. "An eva'c. unit operates and fixes the men as comfortably as they can taken by ambulance or train back farther, to a general hospital. We sometimes have patients only four or five days and if they can not be moved we keep them longer, but since they are brought In right from the front, having been given first aid by a Medical Aid Corps on the field we try to keep cleared out as much as we can so always to be able to take new ones. THere is one comfort in doing this work you know that) as far as the soldiers go the Americans have the best in the world and the surgery our doctors are doln gis nothing short of miraculous. If they can be helped In any way they are. Then the penicillin that we use saves many lives. "Our unit Is together now ln a building that the Germans had occupied for four years before we got here. We have things fixed seeing them. iway Nickel Plate intersection. unnstmas aay Drougnt mm 31 ; , n.i i lYiit, 14.1 o. viauva iiLACl b letters from home which was thejHartle, 37, was ground beneath mak man lie lidu iciciveu ill several weeks. The Red Cross did all that was possible to make the day a little brighter by distributing chocolate bars, ice cream. fruit cake and small gifts to the patients. As there was not- an abundance of ice cream, only those most seriously ill received the treat but Norwood received a pipe which was something he had wanted badly. James Donnelly Expecting Leave After Duty At Sea Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Donnelly, North Main Street, received a telegram last week stating that their son, James Donnelly, Mo.-M.M.3c, has arrived in the States and expects to have a leave coming soon. Donnelly has the train wheels after the train started up and dragged her almost 200 feet before the train came to a halt. Meredith Hartle. 36. R. D. 1. South Amherst had his leg sev-l ! ered at the knee and his rieht leg was badly mangled at the hip.' .Hartle was found 200 feet further down the tracks near the Reid Avenue crossing. He was taken to the hospital in an ambulance and remained conscious all the time. Lorain police said the train did not extend clear across the street, but merely blocked the west side of Broadway. By walking around the end of the train, the man and his wife would have been safe. Mrs. Hartle was a member of a Comanche Indian tribe from Colgate, Oklahoma. Surviving are her mother, Mrs. Oscar An bly Room in the high school, with the meeting starting promptly at 7:30. Postponed from December, the meeting tonight had orginally been slated to include election of officers and adoption of a constitution. However, changes in the schedules of basketball games moved the Lorain St. Mary's game up to conflict with the Booster Club meeting. William Guild, president of the club, stated that the meeting will start promptly, at 7:30 so that those attending can then watch the game. He pointed out that members of the club can boost both the club and the team by attending the meeting and then go ing in a body to the game Basketball Sched Changed For Two Games This Week Changes in the Amherst bas ketball schedule this week will result in games being played to night (Thursday) and tomorrow night, instead of tomorrow and Saturday evenings. Scheduled now to meet the local Comets in cage battles are the following: Thursday, Jan. 11, Lorain St. Mary's, on the local floor; Friday, Jan. 12, Vermilion', there; Tuesday, Jan. 16, South Amherst, there; and Friday, Jan. 19, New London, there. Five games remain for the local squad after the New London game, starting with the Wellington game here on January 26. In the Oberlin game here last Saturday evening, the Comets were outplayed from the start of the game, winding up on the short end of the score, 37-30. Oberlin won the first game between the two teams, earlier in the season, 39-27. In the preliminary, the Am herst Reserves defeated the Ober lin Reserves. Three Estimates Received On Work Called 'Too High' m , . , , All bids for construction of the 1 WO liUSeS Added P'OP0861 additions to the Amherst Hosnin wptp roWto1 nn WJ To Schedule For Saturday P.M. Two additional buses have been added on the Employees' Transit Lines, from Amherst to Lorain on Hospial were rejected on Wed nesday afternoon of this week In a joint meeting of the Rotary Club's Hospital Fund Raising Committee and the Hospital Board. Characterized as much too high and entirely out of line with ar chitects' and other preliminary Asks That Fire Plugs Be Kept Tree Of Snow Fire Chief Al Stiwald this week requested that citizens of the town ,assistin keeping snow cleared away from fire plugs. Pointing out that in most cases a few minutes saved when a department answers a fire alarm may mean the difference between a small loss and a major confla gration, Stiwald said that all Funeral Sprvirp plugs should be readily accessibIe 1 UtlVIUl OLrVlLeS ,t0 firemen. The village is doing wj u j , 'its best to keep the snow shovel- 11VIU LiUSl OlUlUUy 'ed away so that the plugs can I r Saturday afternoons to accom-1 estimates, all three of thp hM modate riders and to eliminate ' received were rpiwtoH over-crowding on the 2:00 o'clock ther taking' of bids tabled for an ous, u was announcea tnis week indefinite period. by John W. Schmauch, president' Th. ; j uSJ. of the company. ' , notrot. . . .. Pointing out that workers go- .... ing to the National Tube Plant i.wo,, fl - must use the 2:00 p. m. bus from project but most had t , Amherst, Schmauch requested that minute declined to t shoppers and others going intojmates. Reasong jven were ft Lora.n use either the bus at 1:15 Scarcity of materjals and ,ab p m. or the one at 1:45 p m. In and recent WMC regulations. the past, the 2:00 p m. bus has Those bidding on job werfi been so crowded that workers jThe John Gm and S(ms Cq going to the steel mills have had j Cleveland, T. J. Hume Co, Lor-chfficulty in obtaining seats. For ai and steinle-Wolfe, Inc., Fre-that reason, the other two buses mont were added expressly to carry .. . . . shopper and others who did not MenjDers u.e Board and the have to an tn wnrW nn Ih. 9-M Commltt. rejecting the bids, took the stand that it would be have to go to work on the 2:00 o'clock bus. The new schedule is in effect only on Saturdays, the one bus being able to seat all passengers on other days of the week. First Baby Born In Hospital Here Donates To Fund For FyGU BeT&er the continued snowfalls and the O I drifting cover some plugs up Viinnrnl corif i foe mora aerson, oerKeiey,ai., ana sister, I Sunday for Fred Berger. 62. in Mrs. Lillian Hudson, Fairfield, 0.;st; peter's Church with Rev. J again. It may be to the citizen's held advantage to donate a little time She was buried Monday at Elm wood cemetery. Mr. Hartle is survived by five brothers and six sisters, Frank of Brownhelm; Harry, address un known; Earl and Leonard, Am H. Bollens officiating. Mr. Berger died Friday at his home, 411 Franklin Ave, after being ill for some time. He had been custodian at the public school for the past 20 years and had worked the last day of school, herst: Louis. U. S. Armv now In "i iiiuu wor been in the navyDesnon General Hospital at But- tw 21 since June 1942 and during that Mr Wanda Millbaury, Qorn Switzerland Mf uCC.. i.o,.,e i0r oniy j; -- ; - ger came to America 50 Ber- days. For the past two years he tlna Hartle- Pittsburgh, Pa.; Mrs.( . . . .,', an ,if u- ci-t j Irene Wall. svkpsviiIp Pa an a , Mrs. Ruth Gray, Elyria. ; been a resident of Amherst. -He , . . was a memuer oi ai. reiers v- '. luiiui ai aciviLCS were has been out of the States and for the last year as been serving on a submarine somewhere in the Pacific. Parker Miller, Sic, is now at tending radio school in the South Pacific. Parker has met John Brown and writes that they spend quite a bit of time together when off duty. held Tuesday at the Zilch Funer al Home with Rev. C. C. Vander- sall, pastor of the First Evangeli cal Church, officiating. Burial was in Brownhelm cemoterv. Pvt. James Redman, who un derwent an aDDendoctnmv last then the patients are ' 0etber, is reported much improv- eu ana aDie to ao lignt duty. Jim is in the Pacific area. Dog Omiers Are Reminded About Jan. 20 Deadline C. J. Ehrman, ircRistrar, this local deputy ! I angelical-Reformed Church and was affiliated with Swiss Lodge of South Amherst, Amherst Eagles, and Maccabees. Survivors are his wife, Mary; jtwo sons, Frederick, of Amherst, j Lieut. Edwin, with the army in ! France; three daughters, Mrs. ! Richard Thutt, Lima; Miss Hulda Berger, and Mrs. George Holl- : stein, Amherst; three grandchildren; lour brothers, Ernest, Lorain; Cari, Oberlin; John, Hen- C.Jnlml. AMuni. 11UUU, nillllUlM, 11VC in clearing out the plugs in this emergency, affording just that much more differential in getting water onto a fire, he stated. As a matter of ocntrast, Stiwald recalled that in January of 1944, lack of snow or rain for a long period of time had left fields so dry that three grass fires were put out by the department during the month. He further pointed out that even if no grass fires could start now, there is still the ever-present danger of fires starting from over-heated furnaces or stoves, and he urged the utmost precaution in firing to prevent a blaze from starting. week warned rini? up pretty nice now, with lights j owners that January 20 is the and windows, but you should see : deadline for securing licenses for us nurses dressed in combat i their Dots without a .nnn-Hnii!,,. pants, leggings, muddy shoes and field jackets. We must walk from our quarters to mess and the hos pital and its plenty muddy for it ! rains daily, but the boys don't penalty. County Auditor Frank Ayres has announced that there will not be an extension of time and that after that date there will be spfm in mlnrl Thov wont in a nnanIlnH t: " " . i, j nun. V w u uiic-uUUUl 1111C. touch us, because we are Ameri- I Ehrman said the licenses had can women, and they want to moved fairlv wnll this venr w hear us talk their language. There is always the American sense of humor, always joking and kidding so altogether things are pretty good. "I'm tried, after twelve hours of duty and its time for bed. so a Merry Christmas to you ln Am herst and say an extra prayer that all these boys will be home for next Christmas." ' j there are still a good many to be sold, compared to sales in former years. The Amherst Parent-Teachers' Association meeting has been postponed until Feb. 12, at 7:30 in the school gym. sisters, Mi's. George Vollmer, Amherst; -Airs. Alma Krugman, Mrs. Augm: Krugman, Mrs. Henry Krieg ai:d Miss Bertha Berger, all of Elyria. Burial was under the direction of Conrad Zilch, the body being taken to Evergreen Cemetery, So. Amherst. Aid To Elect Choir rehearsal for the Congre gational Church will be held at 7:30 this evening (Thursday). . Election of officers will be held when the Ladies' Aid Society of the First Evangelical Church meets in the home of Mrs. George Schroeder, Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Schroeder will be assisted in entertaining by her mother, Mrs. Kroll. Orchestra and choir practice will . be held at the Schroeder home at 7:15 Thursday evening. District Director To Visit Eagles District Director Bob Encle- hart, accompanied bv his staff. will hold a district meeting in connection with the meeting of the local Eagles next Monday night. Visitors from Elyria, Lorain, Nor-walk and Wellington arc expected to attend. A large class of candidates will be initiated in the local order at the meeting January 22nd. Some sidelights on the "history of the Amherst Hosnjtal wprp brought to light this week with the donation of $10 to the Hospital Addition Building Fund by a service man. Sgt. James Ehrman, home on leave from India, in making the donation disclosed that he had a very personal interest in the hospital inasmuch as he was the first baby born there. He was born on February 19, 1917, six days after the formal dedication of the hospital, his mother being the1 second patient there. - The first service man to donate toward the new third baby born in the hospital was S-Sgt. Geoffrey Monger, who also gave $10. He is stationed in India where he is with the medical corps of the army and now in the general hospital at Calcutta. The second baby born in the hospital was Ben Schaeffer, second son of Dr. and Mrs. W. G. Schaeffer, on May 29. 1917. Schaeffer is married and has three daughters and lives in Lorain. All three men graduated from! better to wait for a few months until building conditions were better before asking for further bidding. Had the bids been received two weeks earlier, it was stated, there would have been other estimates presented, at a nuiCh lower total. .!... Almost $7,000 is still needed to make the total of $65,000 felt necessary to construct and equip the addition, A. Nabakowskl. chairman of the fund raislna- committee, has reported. Received to date is the sum of $58,200, of which only $3,000 is . in pledges, the balance being on deposit in the bank. There are still a few people to be contacted for donations, It has been reported. A meeting of the committee is planned for the near future to make plans for contacting those not already seen, ' and for raising the balance of the goal. Herb Morris In i man to donate f rk r ni fund and the LW Ul blllD in the hospital! I heported ISunk j Herbert Morris, MM2c, son of I Mr. and Mrs. William Morris,' i Crosse Street, Is a member of the crew of the Destroyer Reid, announced as sunk In the Philippine area.' The family has received no word concerning the safety of their son. Amherst Hieh Srhoni ,ith ihJ Morm ftas beei in the service class of '35 and all three attended I .! '42 and has seen duty P fte . . . I Pari f in cinnn in. ij H MlfTtrm rnUarrn ii-ht. X? I --""v. auiic iiliJ, -..-... w.4,k rvuiJic .mill iiiHii i graduated Monger and Ehrman are mem bers of the National Honor Soci cty. Sgt. Ehrman left Monday report for duty at Miami, Fla. to Firemen's Board Elects Officers Grange To Install Officers Jan. 18th Installation of officers will be held at Hickory Tree Grange at the Grange hall Jan. 18. Installation was postponed to this date owing to the Impassable condition of the roads. George Park's degree team from Oberlin will Install the subordinate officers and Mrs. Mason's team will Install the juvenile officers. Refreshments will be served by the ladies. William Edwards was elected chairman and Mathcw Lawless secretary and treasurer when the Firemen's Tension Board held their organization meeting at the'? ,he 1 firn ctntUn In . v.n and hostess ut buv iuwh nun jasi week. The board is comprised of six men, two from the fire department, two from the council and two citizens of the village. Representing the firemen are Edwards and Harold Brown; councllmen are John Sablers and Dr. A. F. McQueen: and citizens are Matthew Lawless and Clar ence Kern. Sgt. Jim Ehrman Addresses League i When the Senior League of St. Peter's Evangelical and Reformed Church held its meeting last week in the church parlors, Sgt. James Ehrman gave a talk on the people and customs of India. Many articles were exhibited which he had brought home from India. Mr. and Mrs. John Ehlert. spon sors of the group, were the host and they served I lunch to Rev. J. H. Bollens, Sgt. Ehrman, Richard Ehrman, Jack Bollens, and the Misses Dwella Bollens, Norma and Janice Holl-ingsworth.Plans were made to meet on February 8. I ( The postponed meeting nt tin Truthseekerg Class scheduled far last Tuesday evening has been cancelled for the month. 4